George W. Gilchrist wrote:
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:25:10 -0500
From: "George W. Gilchrist" <gwgilc@wm.edu> Subject: [R-SIG-Mac] Help.start() issues
Sorry to bother folks, but what browsers are known to work for help.start() on OS X (just installed Panther...)? I use Safari for most things, but it does not seem to work for /usr/local/lib/R/doc/html/index.html. Something about the Java script involved in searching does not run correctly. I have the same problem with Netscape 7.1. The last "success" I had was with Netscape 7.0. Does anyone have a better suggestion? Thanks, as always.
The string needed to get either Mozilla 1.3.1 or Safari 1.0(v85) to open that file from the browser window is file:///usr/local/lib/R/doc/html/index.html I failed the first few times because I did not use three slashes. I may have more files around than persons who just installed RAqua since I installed R 1.7 under X11. So I cannot comment on whether the RAqua installation would put that file there. But that is not the file my Jaguar 10.2.6 RAqua (R 1.8.0) installation Help/R Help menu item (as well as help.start() ) opens. Rather it goes to: file:///tmp/Rtmp615/.R/doc/html/index.html Would this information be useful? http://maths.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/help/03b/1779.html I am wondering whether Safari is having problems with whatever is at your value of options("help.db"). Did Apple change how the open command works in the Panther release? When I go to the tmp/../html/ directory in an X11 terminal window and enter "open index.html" Safari opens up that file properly. David Winsemius, R newbie, Mac OS X newbie; Mac, GLIM and SAS oldie